At the beginning of the year we knew about the promotion of phosphorus recovery from wastewater in Switzerland, but now also France is moving towards the end of waste status by approving a circular aimed at both waste management plants and production facilities operators that use waste in replacement of raw materials.Here I leave the link to the new and also the circular.

Hi everyone,Following previous post and as an introduction about phosphorus recovery from WWTP, we share this video made from the P- Rex Project

P-Rex Phosphorus recovery from sewage from David Egal on Vimeo.An evidence of the benefits of this nutrient recovery from wastewater is the increasing number of phosphorus recovery plants that have been installed or are being implemented inside and outside Europe, despite the lack of regulations to encourage on the development and implementation of this technology.Swiss government has gone ahead by approving a revision of the regulation on the waste treatment, which entered into force on 1 January 2016 which becomes mandatory recovery of phosphorus contained in sewage sludge.

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PHORWater Blog is part of awareness raising and dissemination of project results LIFE12 ENV/000441 "Integral Management Model for Phosphorus recovery and reuse from Urban Wastewater", which is beneficiary Depuración de Aguas del Mediterráneo and where participate as partners and co-funders the research groups CALAGUA and LAGEP. The project is co-funded by the European Commission.